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The Delhi government's directive to principals of government schools to prepare re-opening strategy is giving sleepless nights to the students and their parents. 16-year-old Tanisha Handa and her father Rohit Handa are among them.

The double whammy of disasters and rise in vector-borne disease during monsoon is likely to put extra pressure on India's public health infrastructure that is already burdened with the coronavirus pandemic. If timely plans are not devised before monsoon rains, our fight against Covid-19 will take a severe blow.

58-year-old Madhabi Ghosh wades through neck-deep water every time she has to fetch drinking water for herself or her husband. Just half-a-kilometre away from the main Bashirhat-Nezat Road, her house in Bengal's Netaji Palli is submerged in water.

In its latest update, the Centre said the Covid-19 death toll has risen to 4,167 and the number of cases has climbed to 1,45,380 in the country, registering an increase of 146 deaths and 6,535 cases since Monday.